Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to hone their close reading and literary analysis skills. After annotating their copy of the story, writer's craft an essay in which they analyze...

How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...

This tutorial will lead you through the steps on how to view and understand art. Great for all ages.

The home page for the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya. There are many examples of Japanese art from many cultures and periods in Japan's history.

A multimedia art exhibit of Latino art that focuses on the work of six contemporary Latino artists. You can read artist biographies and see a gallery of representative works where you learn more about the particular cultural experiences...

In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...

This is the website of the North Dakota Museum of Art. The museum focuses on contemporary art and art that shows the visual history of the region, including a focus on Native American art. Collections and exhibitions can be viewed...

This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...

The long-term installation, "Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity" is on view at the Brooklyn Museum. This page takes you on a visual, descriptive and virtual tour of the exhibit and selected works from the exhibit.

Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each instructional activity includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.

Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each lesson includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.

Students will discuss opinions on criteria for what makes a work of art and then debate whether Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes can be considered art. Then, students will use everyday objects from their homes as the basis for a new work of art.

View images of beautiful scientific art and read the captions to learn what the images portray. These images are from a contest called the Cool Science Image contest.

Exhibition of art nouveau artwork, glass, jewelry, decorative designs, furniture and furnishings, and architecture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents this famous piece of American culture and provides the painting's history.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Victorian era neo-classically inclined bronze sculpture "Head of Victory" by the American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture is presented as an enlargeable image with a description and...

Students use a cloud identification guide to identify clouds in landscape paintings, then make their own art to identify cloud types.

This piece of art was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful photograph and description are given.

If the discipline, precision, and power of martial arts is your bag, try this project out for size. You won't be sparring with any opponent other than a swinging kick bag, but you'll learn a few powerful lessons about the physics of...

Artlex.com surveys Roman art and artists with text and illustrated examples. Features include links to related terms, concepts, art examples, and the like.

An informative site explaining the attributes of art as well as other art terms.

A site that shows Australian aboriginal icons and their meaning as related to the art. Site information and symbol paintings provided by Janet Long Nakamarra.

An examination of the art of Africa and China, in many different media, viewed from an anthropologist's perspective.

Interactive activity explaining the principle of rhythm as it applies to visual art.